Meet Lumi — The Face of MegaDJ
Every good music site needs a mascot. Someone (or something) that captures the vibe, greets you at the door, and makes the place feel like more than just a list of links. For a while, MegaDJ got by without one — but not anymore.
Say hello to Lumi.
Lumi is the face of MegaDJ. Green hair, bunny ears, headphones permanently clamped on, and an expression that cycles between "ready to destroy the dancefloor" and "already destroyed the dancefloor." She DJs, she dances, she hypes the crowd, and occasionally she just vibes with her eyes closed and one hand in the air like she's feeling every single hi-hat. Honestly, a mood.
The name comes from luminous — glowsticks, laser beams, that magical 3am dancefloor glow that never quite leaves you. If you're a regular around here, you might know her better as Bunnz — on account of the ears, obviously. Either works. She answers to both.
You'll spot her across the site — in the nav, on the homepage, and wherever things need a bit of personality injecting. She's here to stay.
A Brief History of Cheese Files Cover Art
While we're talking visuals, it feels like the right moment to look back at how the cover art for the Cheese Files series has evolved over the years — because it tells its own little story.
The original Cheese Files didn't really have "art" in the modern sense. The earliest uploads on Mixcloud used the default profile picture — a plain avatar that got slapped on everything before anyone was thinking about presentation. If you dig back to mixes like Unknown Hardcore Mix - April 2011 or the Next Generation Records Mix, you'll still see that same blank placeholder. It was a different era. Nobody cared what it looked like; the music was the thing.
That started to change as the numbered series took shape. The Cheese Files 2 through 10 started picking up actual artwork — abstract images, colourful graphics, the kind of thing you'd find on a trance compilation from 2003. They weren't consistent in style or palette, which gave the early series an almost scrapbook quality. Each one looked like a different person made it, even though it was all the same DJ.
The Impish collaboration era is where things got noticeably more polished. Impish - The Cheese Files 26 and Impish - The Cheese Files 33 both sport proper artwork — visually striking covers that clearly had some thought put into them, and it showed in the play counts too (586 and 399 plays respectively — by far the most-played sets in the catalogue). Whether the art drove the clicks or the music did is a chicken-and-egg argument, but those covers stand out in the archive.
The Cheese Files 34 marked another step up — full custom artwork, bold and immediately recognisable as part of a series rather than a random one-off. It currently sits at 174 plays, which for a solo set is the highest in the catalogue.
Then from 2025 onwards, the monthly Cheese Files editions shifted to a consistent format: proper cover art tied to the month, a unified look, and enough visual identity that you could scroll the mixes page and immediately clock the series without reading the title. The 2026 monthly editions — January through May — all carry that same coherent aesthetic.
It's a proper arc when you see it laid out: placeholder avatars → random collages → collab-era polish → monthly branded series. Fifteen-odd years of cover art evolution, all sitting quietly in the archive.
What's Next for Lumi
Now that Lumi is officially the face of things, expect to see her (and Bunnz, when she's feeling cheeky) pop up in more places — blog headers, social posts, maybe even some mix artwork down the line. There's something fitting about a mascot who looks like she wandered in from a 90s rave flyer presiding over a catalogue that's basically a love letter to that exact era.
If you've got thoughts on the name or the character, drop a comment. And if you haven't listened to the latest Cheese Files yet — go on, Lumi's waiting.
— pishposhping
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